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  #16  
Old February 25th 07, 10:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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Default Vista RAM Requirements

I answered a post asking about Vista Ultimate,, so that's what 'It' referred
to.

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...
It runs fine for me with 1 GB and I'm sure it would run fine for most
people with 512 MB. The ones that would want more are probably those who
play a lot of games or do a lot of multimedia.


You don't specify "IT"...

Vista Ultimate?
-----------------------------------------

The ones that would want more are probably those who play a lot of games
or do a lot of multimedia.


Such as watching an HD film on the laptop or letting the grandson play his
favorite game on it?

Or watching YouTube?


Never been there

"A lot of games" -- How about ONE state of the art TODAY game -- fast and
reliably -- no hangups -- no pauses with frozen screen -- and so forth?

How much Video RAM to run Vista Ultimate FAST & RELIABLY.


My Vista is fast and reliable. No games beyond Solitair and Mine Sweeper.
Almost no video. When I have run video it runs fine. But it was almost
always a waste of my time to watch it.

It's like pulling teeth -- one just keeps trying...


Well, maybe if You told US what YOU want to use it for we could be more
specific.

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote in message
...

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...


My understanding is that Vista Ultimate wants 2 GIGS of RAM to run
smoothly and reasonably fast.

Is that incorrect?


It runs fine for me with 1 GB and I'm sure it would run fine for most
people with 512 MB. The ones that would want more are probably those who
play a lot of games or do a lot of multimedia.


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  #17  
Old February 25th 07, 10:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Rick Rogers
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Posts: 473
Default Vista RAM Requirements

But are you running the same apps and such as him? Ram usage and is
dependent on user habits. If all you do is surf and email, then 1GB, even
512MB, is sufficient. Office apps and light gaming? Playing with family
photos? 2GB might be more your style. Hard core gamer? Autocad? Heavy photo
and video work? Move to 4GB (or more if you are running x64).

What you do is watch to see if the system is paging heavily. If so, then
more ram will be of benefit. If not, then you'd be wasting money.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...
Bingo!

Now THAT is a useful answer -- FREE of Bafflegab and Lightspeak.

Thank You.

What do you do with that box?

DSH

"Bobby" wrote in message
...

I found it sluggish under 1Gb and fine anything above that. After 1˝Gb I
didn't notice a great deal of difference.

Bobby

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...


My understanding is that Vista Ultimate wants 2 GIGS of RAM to run
smoothly and reasonably fast.

Is that incorrect?

How much VRAM for Good Performance?

DSH

"BSchnur" wrote in message
om...

Fair enough, these days, a mid-range laptop tends to ship with a 80G to
120G hard drive.

Folks considering upgrading a notebook in place, really should
reconsider by and large, especially for notebooks more than 1 year old.

I got my most recent notebook in the fall -- in theory it can run Vista
32 nicely (T7200, 945 video, 1G DDR2 dual channel RAM, 100G), but I
don't really see the point for the move in my situation.

--
Barry Schnur




  #18  
Old February 25th 07, 10:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
D. Spencer Hines
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Posts: 540
Default Vista RAM Requirements

Thank You!

It sounds as if 2 GB of RAM IS the correct answer -- except for "The Light
Users" -- whoever they are -- the "Most People" Crowd -- who often turn out
NOT to be REAL PEOPLE -- just Marketing Cutouts & Categories.

But other opinions are Most Welcome.

How about your Video RAM and card?

DSH

"pete" wrote in message
...

I run 2gb
Games........great
Decode video............great
copy DVD/Rip CD/etc..........great
YouTube......waste of my time but it works smoothly with a good fast
Internet connection.

I used to run it with 1gb and it was just fine..but anyone will definitly
see an improvement with 2gb.And I am still running an Evaluation copy RC2
build 5744..64bit
peter
"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...
Thanks.

No Games Noted.

How about movies and YouTube?

DSH

"Richard" wrote in message
...

I use Ultimate for office apps, CD/DVD burning etc & no games & I had to
upgrade from 512 - 1024mb RAM.
512 was way too slow, but 1024 is fine.

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...
My understanding is that Vista Ultimate wants 2 GIGS of RAM to run
smoothly and reasonably fast.

Is that incorrect?

How much VRAM for Good Performance?

DSH

"BSchnur" wrote in message
om...

Fair enough, these days, a mid-range laptop tends to ship with a 80G
to
120G hard drive.

Folks considering upgrading a notebook in place, really should
reconsider by and large, especially for notebooks more than 1 year
old.

I got my most recent notebook in the fall -- in theory it can run
Vista
32 nicely (T7200, 945 video, 1G DDR2 dual channel RAM, 100G), but I
don't really see the point for the move in my situation.

--
Barry Schnur



  #19  
Old February 25th 07, 11:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
D. Spencer Hines
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Posts: 540
Default Vista RAM Requirements

INTERESTING!

What are you doing when it crashes?

Or, are you just a cunniculan-pygan troll?

DSH

"Squibbly" wrote in message
...

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...


My understanding is that Vista Ultimate wants 2 GIGS of RAM to run
smoothly and reasonably fast.

Is that incorrect?

How much VRAM for Good Performance?

DSH

"BSchnur" wrote in message
om...

Fair enough, these days, a mid-range laptop tends to ship with a 80G to
120G hard drive.

Folks considering upgrading a notebook in place, really should
reconsider by and large, especially for notebooks more than 1 year old.

I got my most recent notebook in the fall -- in theory it can run Vista
32 nicely (T7200, 945 video, 1G DDR2 dual channel RAM, 100G), but I
don't really see the point for the move in my situation.

--
Barry Schnur


i got 2gb of ram, and vista run far from fine for me, its very sluggish
sometimes it still crashes



  #20  
Old February 25th 07, 11:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Travis King
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Posts: 33
Default Vista RAM Requirements

RAM is a very touchy subject and can vary greatly depending on what you do
with your computer. My system has 1.5GB of RAM and I never see the usage go
above 50% even when I have Windows Media Player running, Internet Explorer,
five or six instances of paint open, and Microsoft Digital Image or Adobe
Photoshop all running at the same time. So for me, 1.5GB runs Vista without
a hitch. You could probably do all that well with 1GB also, but probably
not much below a gig. If you're the kind that just reads e-mail, surfs the
web, plays solitaire, and the like, 512MB probably would work fine. Now if
you're a heavy gamer, I'd say that 2GB would be a good place to be. And
you're also asking how much video RAM for good performance... Do you want
to know how much video RAM for running Aero Glass well or gaming? For Aero
Glass, if you're running at a resolution around 1280x1024 or lower, then
128MB should be fine. If you're running at 1024x768 or lower, you might
even do fine with the bare minimum of 64MB. If you're going to run higher
resolutions than 1280x1024, I'd get 256MB of video RAM. If you do light
gaming - in other words, occasional gaming where you're not playing games
every day and play older games such as Quake III, 128MB should not be a
problem. If you're doing "newer" games starting with Doom 3 on Vista, 256MB
should be fine.
"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...
My understanding is that Vista Ultimate wants 2 GIGS of RAM to run
smoothly and reasonably fast.

Is that incorrect?

How much VRAM for Good Performance?

DSH

"BSchnur" wrote in message
om...

Fair enough, these days, a mid-range laptop tends to ship with a 80G to
120G hard drive.

Folks considering upgrading a notebook in place, really should
reconsider by and large, especially for notebooks more than 1 year old.

I got my most recent notebook in the fall -- in theory it can run Vista
32 nicely (T7200, 945 video, 1G DDR2 dual channel RAM, 100G), but I
don't really see the point for the move in my situation.

--
Barry Schnur




  #21  
Old February 25th 07, 11:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
D. Spencer Hines
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Posts: 540
Default Vista RAM Requirements

1. Thank you.

2. The Subject Line is just:

Vista RAM Requirements

No Version Specified -- I use "IT" is Meaningless.

3. "A lot of games" is also meaningless. How about ONE state-of-the art
game?

4. O.K. Unsophisticated User -- who doesn't run multimedia or decode
multimedia files or run complicated games or multi-task extensively. Got
It! He doesn't watch movies or YouTube either. Got it! He has very little
Video RAM and doesn't use Video very much. Got It!

5. Plays Solitaire and Minesweeper. Got It!

6. Considers Video a Waste of Time -- Text and Still Pictures Only?
Boring.

5. "Light User" = 1 GB RAM.

DSH

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote in message
...

I answered a post asking about Vista Ultimate,, so that's what 'It'
referred to.

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...


It runs fine for me with 1 GB and I'm sure it would run fine for most
people with 512 MB. The ones that would want more are probably those
who play a lot of games or do a lot of multimedia.


You don't specify "IT"...

Vista Ultimate?
-----------------------------------------

The ones that would want more are probably those who play a lot of games
or do a lot of multimedia.


Such as watching an HD film on the laptop or letting the grandson play
his favorite game on it?

Or watching YouTube?


Never been there

"A lot of games" -- How about ONE state of the art TODAY game -- fast and
reliably -- no hangups -- no pauses with frozen screen -- and so forth?

How much Video RAM to run Vista Ultimate FAST & RELIABLY.


My Vista is fast and reliable. No games beyond Solitair and Mine Sweeper.
Almost no video. When I have run video it runs fine. But it was almost
always a waste of my time to watch it.


O.K. Unsophisticated User -- who doesn't run multimedia or decode
multimedia files or run complicated games or multi-task extensively. Got
It!

It's like pulling teeth -- one just keeps trying...


Well, maybe if You told US what YOU want to use it for we could be more
specific.

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote in message
...

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...


My understanding is that Vista Ultimate wants 2 GIGS of RAM to run
smoothly and reasonably fast.

Is that incorrect?

It runs fine for me with 1 GB and I'm sure it would run fine for most
people with 512 MB. The ones that would want more are probably those
who play a lot of games or do a lot of multimedia.



  #22  
Old February 25th 07, 11:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
D. Spencer Hines
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Posts: 540
Default Vista RAM Requirements

Thank you kindly.

It looks as if 2 GB RAM is the sweet spot ON 25 February 2007*** -- Oscar
Day -- but leave room for expansion to 4 GB ---- as MS and others issue more
bloated software with Heavy Video Requirements.

***Note Caveat Above...

Such expansion may not be possible on a laptop.

Heat & Weight and Size Problems.

DSH

"Rick Rogers" wrote in message
...

But are you running the same apps and such as him? Ram usage and is
dependent on user habits. If all you do is surf and email, then 1GB, even
512MB, is sufficient. Office apps and light gaming? Playing with family
photos? 2GB might be more your style. Hard core gamer? Autocad? Heavy
photo and video work? Move to 4GB (or more if you are running x64).

What you do is watch to see if the system is paging heavily. If so, then
more ram will be of benefit. If not, then you'd be wasting money.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...
Bingo!

Now THAT is a useful answer -- FREE of Bafflegab and Lightspeak.

Thank You.

What do you do with that box?

DSH

"Bobby" wrote in message
...

I found it sluggish under 1Gb and fine anything above that. After 1˝Gb I
didn't notice a great deal of difference.

Bobby

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...


My understanding is that Vista Ultimate wants 2 GIGS of RAM to run
smoothly and reasonably fast.

Is that incorrect?

How much VRAM for Good Performance?

DSH

"BSchnur" wrote in message
om...

Fair enough, these days, a mid-range laptop tends to ship with a 80G
to
120G hard drive.

Folks considering upgrading a notebook in place, really should
reconsider by and large, especially for notebooks more than 1 year
old.

I got my most recent notebook in the fall -- in theory it can run
Vista
32 nicely (T7200, 945 video, 1G DDR2 dual channel RAM, 100G), but I
don't really see the point for the move in my situation.

--
Barry Schnur



  #23  
Old February 25th 07, 11:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
D. Spencer Hines
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Posts: 540
Default Vista RAM Requirements

Thank you kindly.

I mean that Most Sincerely...

But have you ever heard of the invention of the PARAGRAPH? g

Travis from Texas?

DSH

"Travis King" wrote in message
...

RAM is a very touchy subject and can vary greatly depending on what you do
with your computer. My system has 1.5GB of RAM and I never see the usage
go above 50% even when I have Windows Media Player running, Internet
Explorer, five or six instances of paint open, and Microsoft Digital Image
or Adobe Photoshop all running at the same time. So for me, 1.5GB runs
Vista without a hitch. You could probably do all that well with 1GB also,
but probably not much below a gig. If you're the kind that just reads
e-mail, surfs the web, plays solitaire, and the like, 512MB probably would
work fine. Now if you're a heavy gamer, I'd say that 2GB would be a good
place to be. And you're also asking how much video RAM for good
performance... Do you want to know how much video RAM for running Aero
Glass well or gaming?


Yes, please & which version of Vista are you running?

For Aero Glass, if you're running at a resolution around 1280x1024


Yes, that's where I am on resolution. I'm currently running on an NVIDIA
GeForce 6800 with 256 MB.

or lower, then 128MB should be fine. If you're running at 1024x768 or
lower, you might even do fine with the bare minimum of 64MB. If you're
going to run higher resolutions than 1280x1024, I'd get 256MB of video
RAM. If you do light gaming - in other words, occasional gaming where
you're not playing games every day and play older games such as Quake III,
128MB should not be a problem. If you're doing "newer" games starting
with Doom 3 on Vista, 256MB should be fine.


But next year at this time, God willing, I may need 512 MB to run a
state-of-the art game with grandson, or granddaughter -- Right?

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...


My understanding is that Vista Ultimate wants 2 GIGS of RAM to run
smoothly and reasonably fast.

Is that incorrect?

How much VRAM for Good Performance?

DSH

"BSchnur" wrote in message
om...

Fair enough, these days, a mid-range laptop tends to ship with a 80G to
120G hard drive.

Folks considering upgrading a notebook in place, really should
reconsider by and large, especially for notebooks more than 1 year old.

I got my most recent notebook in the fall -- in theory it can run Vista
32 nicely (T7200, 945 video, 1G DDR2 dual channel RAM, 100G), but I
don't really see the point for the move in my situation.

--
Barry Schnur



  #24  
Old February 26th 07, 12:10 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Travis King
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Posts: 33
Default Vista RAM Requirements

I just tend to not write paragraphs in newsgroup. I started a bad
habit... I am using Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit on an AMD Sempron 64
2800+ processor overclocked to 2GHz. I'm using an Ati Radeon X1600PRO AGP
8x video card with 256MB GDDR2 video RAM. I'm using 1.5GB of PC-2700 RAM.
My primary hard drive that Vista is on is just a Western Digital 120GB IDE
8MB cache 7200RPM hard drive - nothing real new. I'm running the system at
a 1280x1024 resolution, but the video card is capable of running up to much
higher resolutions than my monitor can support. (My monitor's maximum
resolution is 1600x1200.)
According to the properties, my video card can handle up to 1920x1080
resolution with Aero. I've run my card at 1600x1200 with Aero on before and
it had no problems running it - it's just that things look way too small on
that resolution for my CRT. Having more video RAM most definitely wouldn't
hurt if you're wanting a video card that will go into the future gaming, but
256MB should work fine for the next year or two for modern gaming. My
Windows Experience Index Rating on my computer is a 4.0 with my overclocked
processor, and the CPU is what's holding my score down the most.
Here's a list of my ratings for the Windows Experience Index:
CPU: 4.0
RAM: 4.3
Graphics (Aero): 4.4
Gaming Graphics: 4.8
Hard Drive: 5.0

Without an overclock, my score is around a 3.4 or 3.5. I can also tell that
my processor is indeed the part that is holding my system back the most on
Vista, but even so, it still runs smoothly.
"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...
Thank you kindly.

I mean that Most Sincerely...

But have you ever heard of the invention of the PARAGRAPH? g

Travis from Texas?

DSH

"Travis King" wrote in message
...

RAM is a very touchy subject and can vary greatly depending on what you
do
with your computer. My system has 1.5GB of RAM and I never see the usage
go above 50% even when I have Windows Media Player running, Internet
Explorer, five or six instances of paint open, and Microsoft Digital
Image
or Adobe Photoshop all running at the same time. So for me, 1.5GB runs
Vista without a hitch. You could probably do all that well with 1GB
also,
but probably not much below a gig. If you're the kind that just reads
e-mail, surfs the web, plays solitaire, and the like, 512MB probably
would
work fine. Now if you're a heavy gamer, I'd say that 2GB would be a good
place to be. And you're also asking how much video RAM for good
performance... Do you want to know how much video RAM for running Aero
Glass well or gaming?


Yes, please & which version of Vista are you running?

For Aero Glass, if you're running at a resolution around 1280x1024


Yes, that's where I am on resolution. I'm currently running on an NVIDIA
GeForce 6800 with 256 MB.

or lower, then 128MB should be fine. If you're running at 1024x768 or
lower, you might even do fine with the bare minimum of 64MB. If you're
going to run higher resolutions than 1280x1024, I'd get 256MB of video
RAM. If you do light gaming - in other words, occasional gaming where
you're not playing games every day and play older games such as Quake
III,
128MB should not be a problem. If you're doing "newer" games starting
with Doom 3 on Vista, 256MB should be fine.


But next year at this time, God willing, I may need 512 MB to run a
state-of-the art game with grandson, or granddaughter -- Right?

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...


My understanding is that Vista Ultimate wants 2 GIGS of RAM to run
smoothly and reasonably fast.

Is that incorrect?

How much VRAM for Good Performance?

DSH

"BSchnur" wrote in message
om...

Fair enough, these days, a mid-range laptop tends to ship with a 80G to
120G hard drive.

Folks considering upgrading a notebook in place, really should
reconsider by and large, especially for notebooks more than 1 year old.

I got my most recent notebook in the fall -- in theory it can run Vista
32 nicely (T7200, 945 video, 1G DDR2 dual channel RAM, 100G), but I
don't really see the point for the move in my situation.

--
Barry Schnur




  #25  
Old February 26th 07, 01:06 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
D. Spencer Hines
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Posts: 540
Default Vista RAM Requirements

It makes your very informative posts very hard to read on a monitor.

I fear some folks will just give up and move on, thereby missing out on your
Wisdom.

I'm going to paragraph it a bit below -- so I can read it.

DSH

"Travis King" wrote in message
...

I just tend to not write paragraphs in newsgroup. I started a bad
habit... I am using Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit on an AMD Sempron
64 2800+ processor overclocked to 2GHz. I'm using an Ati Radeon X1600PRO
AGP 8x video card with 256MB GDDR2 video RAM. I'm using 1.5GB of PC-2700
RAM.


My primary hard drive that Vista is on is just a Western Digital 120GB IDE
8MB cache 7200RPM hard drive - nothing real new. I'm running the system
at a 1280x1024 resolution, but the video card is capable of running up to
much higher resolutions than my monitor can support. (My monitor's
maximum resolution is 1600x1200.)


According to the properties, my video card can handle up to 1920x1080
resolution with Aero. I've run my card at 1600x1200 with Aero on before
and it had no problems running it - it's just that things look way too
small on that resolution for my CRT.


Right!

Having more video RAM most definitely wouldn't hurt if you're wanting a
video card that will go into the future gaming, but 256MB should work fine
for the next year or two for modern gaming. My Windows Experience Index
Rating on my computer is a 4.0 with my overclocked processor, and the CPU
is what's holding my score down the most.
Here's a list of my ratings for the Windows Experience Index:


CPU: 4.0
RAM: 4.3
Graphics (Aero): 4.4
Gaming Graphics: 4.8
Hard Drive: 5.0

Without an overclock, my score is around a 3.4 or 3.5. I can also tell
that my processor is indeed the part that is holding my system back the
most on Vista, but even so, it still runs smoothly.


"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...


Thank you kindly.

I mean that Most Sincerely...

But have you ever heard of the invention of the PARAGRAPH? g

Travis from Texas?

DSH

"Travis King" wrote in message
...

RAM is a very touchy subject and can vary greatly depending on what you
do
with your computer. My system has 1.5GB of RAM and I never see the
usage
go above 50% even when I have Windows Media Player running, Internet
Explorer, five or six instances of paint open, and Microsoft Digital
Image
or Adobe Photoshop all running at the same time. So for me, 1.5GB runs
Vista without a hitch. You could probably do all that well with 1GB
also,
but probably not much below a gig. If you're the kind that just reads
e-mail, surfs the web, plays solitaire, and the like, 512MB probably
would
work fine. Now if you're a heavy gamer, I'd say that 2GB would be a
good
place to be. And you're also asking how much video RAM for good
performance... Do you want to know how much video RAM for running Aero
Glass well or gaming?


Yes, please & which version of Vista are you running?

For Aero Glass, if you're running at a resolution around 1280x1024


Yes, that's where I am on resolution. I'm currently running on an NVIDIA
GeForce 6800 with 256 MB.

or lower, then 128MB should be fine. If you're running at 1024x768 or
lower, you might even do fine with the bare minimum of 64MB. If you're
going to run higher resolutions than 1280x1024, I'd get 256MB of video
RAM. If you do light gaming - in other words, occasional gaming where
you're not playing games every day and play older games such as Quake
III,
128MB should not be a problem. If you're doing "newer" games starting
with Doom 3 on Vista, 256MB should be fine.


But next year at this time, God willing, I may need 512 MB to run a
state-of-the art game with grandson, or granddaughter -- Right?



  #26  
Old February 26th 07, 01:07 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
BSchnur
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Posts: 8
Default Vista RAM Requirements

The 'it depends' answer makes some sense -- here are some
considerations.

If you have a notebook with 1G of memory which has a video card using
shared memory (taking it from the 1G) of say 128M or more, then Vista
is going to be sluggish doing some things -- including graphics heavy
things like playing a movie or video under IE. For word processing and
spreadsheet work it will be ok. For email -- well if you have HTML
enabled, it might seem slow.

Now, if instead you have a workstation with 1G of memory and a video
card which has 256M of memory and doesn't use shared memory (for the 1G
installed), you'll not see some of the memory based performance
bottlenecks.


--
Barry Schnur
  #27  
Old February 26th 07, 01:16 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Travis King
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Posts: 33
Default Vista RAM Requirements

Oh, sorry. I'm not from Texas either. Not even close. ; )
"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...
Thank you kindly.

I mean that Most Sincerely...

But have you ever heard of the invention of the PARAGRAPH? g

Travis from Texas?

DSH

"Travis King" wrote in message
...

RAM is a very touchy subject and can vary greatly depending on what you
do
with your computer. My system has 1.5GB of RAM and I never see the usage
go above 50% even when I have Windows Media Player running, Internet
Explorer, five or six instances of paint open, and Microsoft Digital
Image
or Adobe Photoshop all running at the same time. So for me, 1.5GB runs
Vista without a hitch. You could probably do all that well with 1GB
also,
but probably not much below a gig. If you're the kind that just reads
e-mail, surfs the web, plays solitaire, and the like, 512MB probably
would
work fine. Now if you're a heavy gamer, I'd say that 2GB would be a good
place to be. And you're also asking how much video RAM for good
performance... Do you want to know how much video RAM for running Aero
Glass well or gaming?


Yes, please & which version of Vista are you running?

For Aero Glass, if you're running at a resolution around 1280x1024


Yes, that's where I am on resolution. I'm currently running on an NVIDIA
GeForce 6800 with 256 MB.

or lower, then 128MB should be fine. If you're running at 1024x768 or
lower, you might even do fine with the bare minimum of 64MB. If you're
going to run higher resolutions than 1280x1024, I'd get 256MB of video
RAM. If you do light gaming - in other words, occasional gaming where
you're not playing games every day and play older games such as Quake
III,
128MB should not be a problem. If you're doing "newer" games starting
with Doom 3 on Vista, 256MB should be fine.


But next year at this time, God willing, I may need 512 MB to run a
state-of-the art game with grandson, or granddaughter -- Right?

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...


My understanding is that Vista Ultimate wants 2 GIGS of RAM to run
smoothly and reasonably fast.

Is that incorrect?

How much VRAM for Good Performance?

DSH

"BSchnur" wrote in message
om...

Fair enough, these days, a mid-range laptop tends to ship with a 80G to
120G hard drive.

Folks considering upgrading a notebook in place, really should
reconsider by and large, especially for notebooks more than 1 year old.

I got my most recent notebook in the fall -- in theory it can run Vista
32 nicely (T7200, 945 video, 1G DDR2 dual channel RAM, 100G), but I
don't really see the point for the move in my situation.

--
Barry Schnur




  #28  
Old February 26th 07, 01:16 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
BSchnur
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Perhaps if you described fully what you intend to do with your system
then folks wouldn't be engaged in a series of 20 questions which you
might see as non-responsive.

The experience an individual has with a particular OS is really as much
a function of what they specifically use the computer for as the actual
configuration.

Installing 2G of memory on Vista is one of those 'just in case' -- sort
of responses -- that is, given an unknown user doing any number of
things on the computer, 2G will be fine. For most users, 1G will be
quite acceptable. But you've indicated you are unhappy with that
response, so for starters, what are you currently using now for a
system and what are you currently doing with that system.

When you ask an unfocused answer, and get unfocused replies, you really
shouldn't consider the replies to be unresponsive.

--
Barry Schnur
  #29  
Old February 26th 07, 01:49 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
D. Spencer Hines
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Default Vista RAM Requirements

Travis was from Texas.

THE Travis...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barret_Travis

DSH

"Travis King" wrote in message
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Oh, sorry. I'm not from Texas either. Not even close. ; )




  #30  
Old February 26th 07, 02:14 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
D. Spencer Hines
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Default Vista RAM Requirements

Perhaps if you described fully what you intend to do with your system
then folks wouldn't be engaged in a series of 20 questions which you
might see as non-responsive.


[...]

When you ask an unfocused answer, [sic] and get unfocused replies, you
really shouldn't consider the replies to be unresponsive.

--
Barry Schnur


Hmmmmmmmm...

Farblondjet.
----------------------------------------------

Nope, been there -- done that.

My present system has little or nothing to do with it.

I may buy an entirely NEW system if people can tell me TEN reasons to
upgrade to Vista.

So far they have struck out. Repeatedly.

Don't focus on ANY current hardware/software system -- mine or someone
else's.

Focus On The Capabilities & Limitations Of VISTA.

Tell me what VISTA can do that XP Pro SP2 can't -- that is something more
than fluff, smoke and mirrors.

I already knew my XP system can be used with Multiple Languages -- but NOW
know a Vista system cannot -- unless you buy Ultimate.

Then, you may still have to pay for language packs and activate each one or
some similar ruddy time-wasting thing.

No one will tell me about that.

So, for Multi-Language -- XP Pro is FAR better -- unless someone can tell me
otherwise -- and they have not.

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Fortem Posce Animum

Exitus Acta Probat

"BSchnur" wrote in message
om...

Perhaps if you described fully what you intend to do with your system
then folks wouldn't be engaged in a series of 20 questions which you
might see as non-responsive.

The experience an individual has with a particular OS is really as much
a function of what they specifically use the computer for as the actual
configuration.

Installing 2G of memory on Vista is one of those 'just in case' -- sort
of responses -- that is, given an unknown user doing any number of
things on the computer, 2G will be fine. For most users, 1G will be
quite acceptable. But you've indicated you are unhappy with that
response, so for starters, what are you currently using now for a
system and what are you currently doing with that system.

When you ask an unfocused answer, and get unfocused replies, you really
shouldn't consider the replies to be unresponsive.

--
Barry Schnur



 




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